''Pandippada'' () is a 2005 Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

-language

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written and directed by

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. The film stars

Dileep Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai, better known by his stage name Dileep, is an Indian actor, producer, and businessman who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has acted in more than 150 films and has won several awards, inc ...

in the lead role while

Navya Nair Navya Nair is an Indian actress who has appeared predominantly in Malayalam films, along with others in Kannada and Tamil. She is the recipient of several awards. Personal life Nair married Santhosh Menon in 2010, and the couple have a son. ...

Prakash Raj Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai; 26 March 1965) is an Indian actor, film director, producer, television presenter, and politician. Known for his works in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam-language films, he is the recipient of several ...

Rajan P. Dev Rajan P. Dev (20 May 1951 – 29 July 2009) was an Indian film and stage actor. He was born in Cherthala in the Alappuzha district of the former state Thiru-Kochi (present day Kerala). He had acted in over 500 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu ...

Harisree Asokan Harisree Ashokan is an Indian actor and director who is known for his comedy roles in Malayalam films. Ashokan has acted in more than 200 Malayalam films. He started his career as a mimicry artist in the troupe Harisree and then worked in Kalab ...

Salim Kumar Salim Kumar (born 10 October 1969) is an Indian actor, comedian, director and writer in Malayalam cinema. Mostly known for his comic and comedy roles, Salim Kumar is considered one of the best and most prominent comedians in the history of Mala ...

Cochin Haneefa Muhammed Haneefa (22 April 1951 – 2 February 2010), better known by his stage name Cochin Haneefa, was an Indian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He started his career in the 1970s mainly portraying villainous roles, before going on to ...

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, and

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play supporting roles. The film was produced by Dileep and Anoop under the company

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.The film was commercial successful at box office, it was one of the highest grossing film in 2005 and developed a

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following. The film released on 4 July 2005. The story follows Malayali Bhuvana Chandran (Dileep), an unsuccessful entrepreneur in a lot of debt, who gets involved in a land conflict between two powerful landlords in Tamil Nadu: Pandi Durai (Prakash Raj) and Karuppayya Swami (Rajan P. Dev).

Plot

Pandippada is the story of a rivalry between Pandi Durai (

) and his brother-in-law Karuppayya Swami (

), who are illiterate landlords, yet equally feared by the villagers for their brutalities. Bhuvanachandran (

) is a 38 year old unsuccessful entrepreneur who gets a piece of land in the same village. He has a lot of debts and in order to clear that, he has to sell this land. However, Pandi and Karuppayya has not let any owner of the land to sell it, Bhuvan being the latest owner to land into trouble. Bhuvanan, not knowing the situation stemming from the feud, comes to this village to check the possibilities of selling the land. Then he sees his best friend Bhasi (

Harisree Ashokan Harisree Ashokan is an Indian actor and director who is known for his comedy roles in Malayalam films. Ashokan has acted in more than 200 Malayalam films. He started his career as a mimicry artist in the troupe Harisree and then worked in Kalab ...

) who lived there and asks for his help. Bhasi takes him to Pandi, whose gang he was a member of, and Bhuvanan joins Pandi's group. Later, he falls in love with Meena (

), who is the beautiful, literate yet well-mannered daughter of Karuppayya.{{cite web, url=http://www.nowrunning.com/movie/2349/malayalam/pandipada/preview.htm, title=Pandipada Preview, Synopsis, accessdate=13 March 2010 However, Pandi also wants to marry Meena, and this makes Pandi and Bhuvanan as enemies. Pandi wants to kill Bhuvanan. Karuppayya finds Bhuvan to be the better suitor than Pandi, and fixes the marriage of Meena and Bhuvanan. Pandi also fixes his marriage with Meena on the same date. In the chaos that follows, Bhuvanan beats Pandi in a duel, and finally gives a gun to him and asks him to shoot him if he cannot see him as a brother. Pandi realises his mistakes and forgives them both and nods approval for their marriage.

Cast

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as Bhuvana Chandran *

as Meena *

as Pandi Durai *

as Kuruppu/Karuppayya Swami *

as Bhasi *

as Umakanthan *

as Ummachan *

as Mallika, Karuppayya Swami's Wife *

as Pandi Durai's Mother *

as Veeramani *

T. P. Madhavan T. P. Madhavan (born 7 November 1935) is an Indian actor who appeared in Malayalam films. He started acting at the age of 40. He has acted in more than 600 films. He came into the film industry playing villain roles; later he started doing com ...

as Bhuvanachandran's father *

Zeenath Zeenath A.P is an Indian actress and dubbing artist. She was a prominent supporting actress during the 1990s in Malayalam films. Background Zeenath was born to Abu Achippuram and Fathima in Nilambur, Malappuram district. She had her primary edu ...

as Bhuvanachandran's mother *

Subbalakshmi Subbalakshmi is an acclaimed Carnatic musician, composer and an actress in Malayalam movies. She is one of the prominent supporting actresses currently handling grand mother roles in Malayalam movies. She is noted for her performance in '' Kal ...

as Meena's grandmother *

Neena Kurup Neena Kurup is an Indian actress who appears in Malayalam films. She is most well known for her roles as Aswathy in '' Sreedharante Onnam Thirumurivu'' (1987) and Karishma in ''Punjabi House'' (1998). She has acted in many television serials af ...

as Bhuvanachandran's sister *

Kalabhavan Haneef Kalabhavan Haneef is an Indian actor and mimicry artist in Malayalam cinema. He made his debut with the film, Sandesham (1991). Personal life Haneef started his mimicry activity while his schooling, later started his career as a sales person ...

as Chimbu *

Kollam Ajith Ajith Kollam (7 April 1962 – 5 April 2018) was an Indian actor, who predominantly appeared in Malayalam cinema. He had acted in more than 500 films in all South Indian languages. He mainly acted in villain roles. He acted in the Tamil movie ' ...

as Murugan, Karuppayya Swami's henchman *

Geetha Salam Abdul Salam (9 October 1946 – 19 December 2018) was an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema known by his stage name Geetha Salam, known for ''Malabar Wedding'', '' Jalolsavam'' (2004) and ''Mylanchi Monchulla Veedu'' (2014). He lived in Krishnapu ...

as broker *

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as Gounder *

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as Police Officer *

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as Raghava * Nandu Poduval as Tattoo Artist * Sharmita as Meena's friend *

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as Guy in Peacock costume. {{colend

Box Office

The film was commercially successful in box office and ran more than 100 days completed in theatres.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

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, with lyrics written by Chittoor Gopi, R. K. Damodaran, I. S. Kundoor,

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References

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External links

* {{IMDb title, 0463650, Pandippada {{Rafi Mecartin 2000s Malayalam-language films 2005 romantic comedy films 2005 films Malayalam films remade in other languages Films scored by Suresh Peters Films produced by Dileep Films shot in Tamil Nadu Indian romantic comedy films Films directed by Rafi–Mecartin